Quotes of: Fairly Keyword

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

Orla Brady

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

Trevor McDonald

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

Keith Gessen

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Ken Salazar

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

Sade Adu

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

Sarah Brightman

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Mark Twain

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

Mike Wallace

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

Neil Gaiman

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

Toshihiko Fukui

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Vivien Leigh

Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.

Angela Cartwright

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Kate Smith

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

Jarvis Cocker

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

Adam McKay

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Euripides

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

Peter Baynham

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Roger Bannister

I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.

Bob Balaban